KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — A hole-by-hole look at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, site of the 103rd PGA Championship to be played May 20-23: No. 1, 396 yards, par 4 A gentle start to the championship, though it features one of the narrowest fairways on the golf course, with a waste area to the right and thick dune grass […]

Senior golf writer for ESPN.com Covered golf for more than 20 years Earned Evans Scholarship to attend Indiana University KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The fee was in the neighborhood of $80 per hour. That is what Rick Sessinghaus charged all the junior golfers at the executive course he worked at in Glendale, California. And yes, that included a very young […]

US officials hope to stage the ‘greatest Ryder Cup in history’ with a daily crowd of 50,000 including 5,000 fans from Europe at Whistling Straits Ryder Cup will take place in September before a daily capacity crowd of 50,000 PGA chief executive Waugh expects a travel corridor to be in place in September Tickets were sold out long before decision […]

Padraig Harrington is set to play in his 21st PGA Championship this week but he admits his focus has now turned to the Ryder Cup in September. The 49-year-old Irishman, who won the PGA Championship in 2008, admits he has come to realise the responsibility of the role and is eager to do it justice as Europe prepare to defend […]

Rory McIlroy is willing to forgive the “stupid comments” emanating from outside the ropes as he looks to feed off the energy from the returning golf fans at this week’s PGA Championship. McIlroy spoke many times last year of his struggles to cope with playing tournament golf behind closed doors when top-level competition resumed following the coronavirus shutdown, and he […]

Rory McIlroy won once already in May. Can he do it again? Betting odds for the 2021 PGA Championship say that he has a good chance to do just that. The 32-year-old has emerged with a win in the PGA Championship twice, in 2012 and 2014, but since that ’14 victory, McIlroy hasn’t been able to take home a major […]

Senior golf writer for ESPN.com Covered golf for more than 20 years Earned Evans Scholarship to attend Indiana University KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Defending PGA Championship winner Collin Morikawa is part of a featured grouping — along with reigning Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama and U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau — that will begin play at 8:44 a.m. ET Thursday at […]

Lee Westwood has become the latest golfer to withdraw himself from consideration for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, even if he qualified to represent Team GB. The world’s top 15 players are eligible for the Olympics, with a limit of four players from a particular country, while a maximum of two eligible players qualify from countries with two or less players […]

The PGA Championship returns to one of the most picturesque courses in the world this year, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Kiawah Island produce drama to match the beauty in May. The Ocean Course was a happy hunting ground for Rory McIlroy in 2012 when he romped to his second major title in the same dominant manner […]